The Historical and Cultural District Renovation Project of Old Taihe Town in China, launched in 2021 in Meishan City, Sichuan Province, is an epoch-making project driven by the dual missions of perpetuating Meishan's urban culture and revitalizing the community.

In the context of the central government's promotion of historical and cultural protection and inheritance system, the project innovatively introduces the methodology of evaluation and protection of cultural heritage values, primarily cultural and social values, to fully protect 11 historical streets and alleys, two officially protected cultural heritage units, 58 historical buildings, and nine intangible cultural heritage of traditional skills. The project has also achieved the objective of increasing the employment and income of the inhabitants. The strategies of sustainable development were carried out through a series of technological innovations during the implementation of the project, and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has included them in the "14th Five-Year Plan" of the State Key Research and Development Program for promotion.

The project has successfully vitalized this traditional community with more than 2,000 years of history, provided a replicable Chinese solution for preserving and renewing high-density conventional neighborhoods, and realized a multidimensional balance of historical heritage, community revitalization, and sustainable development.

第三个问题
Please explain briefly how you measure impact (i.e., indicators and/or criteria to track progress)*

1. Community Development
a) Community Space Enhancement: Assess the improvement of living quality, including the number of housing units, living space, municipal infrastructure enhancement, etc.; assess the enhancement of public space in the community, including the design and utilization of public service facilities, street and alley landscaping space, and care facilities for special populations.
b) Community Economy: Evaluate the operation of the neighborhood, such as renting and property fees, and the flow of visitors to events; evaluate the impact on the employment and livelihood of residents; and count the number of jobs provided.
c) Community building and social integration: statistics on the return of aboriginal people and the traceability of the foreign population, assessing the integration between different groups, assessing the effectiveness and degree of perfection of the community system, and assessing the degree of participation and satisfaction of community residents.

2. Cultural Heritage Protection
a) cultural heritage protection: including statistics on the number and condition of historical and cultural buildings, the proportion of building repair, and inspection reports on historical buildings and cultural protection units.
b) Intangible cultural heritage protection and utilization.

3. Sustainable development
a) Efficiency of resource utilization: e.g., the ratio of renovated existing residential houses to new houses and the recycling and reuse of old building materials.
b) Evaluation of whether the community building process is environmentally friendly: e.g., whether the building uses environmentally friendly materials.

4. Recognition and Social Evaluation: Recognition, media evaluation, and other community renewal projects influenced by this project.